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Last night in Copenhagen, Sanctuary Runners won a major international award for our work in community integration. We are still pinching ourselves. Delighted, especially, for all our participants, our organisers, our groups, our supporters, our people #Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners wins major International Award in Copenhagen | Sanctuary Runners

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race!

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Sanctuary Runner trio take silver medal in Donegal relay race | Sanctuary Runners

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Aug 23

🔵 All roads lead to Letterkenny for tomorrow's Donegal Half Marathon! Noel and Graham will be travelling to run with Hopsy, Menad and Victor in this beautiful part of Ireland!! A Ghanian -Algerian-Irish-Nigerian mixed team with lots of supporters in blue! #Solidarity @annapr.bsky.social

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Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social · Jul 17

🔵That moment when you decide to look when your 16-week training schedule for the Dublin City Marathon will start only to discover you're already supposed to be two weeks in!

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Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 11

On Wednesday we launched the #GlobalSolidarityRun 2025 at the World Expo in Osaka Japan - WATCH how we did it!

The run itself will take place in 100+ countries across the world and YOU can be part of it! For more info go to Ireland.ie/GlobalRun #Solidarity

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Global Solidarity Run 2025 launch, Expo, Osaka, Japan

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Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our sincere thanks to Neale Richmond, Minister of State for International Development for his support this week. This video of the Minister welcoming the world to join in our #GlobalSolidarityRun on October 11th was heartfelt and very much appreciated this week. It was played at our Osaka launch.

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Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social · Jul 10

So fortunate this morning to spend a couple of hours with Keiko Tanaka, founder of Rafiq (a refugee support NGO) in Osaka in the company of long time Sanctuary Runner Hirohiko Katayama.

We spoke of their work and the huge difficulties faced by refugees in Japan. Learned so much. #Solidarity

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Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Now, more than ever, we need to stand up and demand that people are treated with decency and humanity"

Graham Clifford, @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social Founder at Expo 2025 in Osaka at launch of Global Solidarity Run - #Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners athletes join initiative to promote 'Global Solidarity Run'

The Global Solidarity Run will take place at the World Expo in Osaka on Saturday, October 11

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · Jul 9

Lovely scenes from Osaka today where @grahamclifford.bsky.social is launching the @global-run.bsky.social for @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social.

Hopefully coming to 100 countries this October!

Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 9

🔵An incredible morning at Expo 2025 Osaka where we launched this year's Global Solidarity Run #GlobalRun2025 with people, including delegates, from 30+ countries. Our huge thanks to all those at the Irish Pavilion for your help in bringing this about - For more see www.ireland.ie/en/irish-aid...

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Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 9

🔵An incredible morning at Expo 2025 Osaka where we launched this year's Global Solidarity Run #GlobalRun2025 with people, including delegates, from 30+ countries. Our huge thanks to all those at the Irish Pavilion for your help in bringing this about - For more see www.ireland.ie/en/irish-aid...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Jul 7

Image of impending storm with text overlaid: 'Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.'

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Global Solidarity Run @global-run.bsky.social · Jul 7

This week we are in Osaka, Japan to launch this year's @global-run.bsky.social - The Global Solidarity Run will take place on Saturday Oct 11th enabling people to run, jog, walk or roll in solidarity with all those in our world who are forcibly displaced or living in extreme poverty. #Solidarity

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Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fitting that I found the famous Glico running man sign in Osaka today! A good omen for Wednesday morning's run at the @expo-osaka-2025.bsky.social to launch this year's #GlobalSolidarityRun! @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social

See: www.ireland.ie/en/irish-aid...

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jul 1

🔵A beautiful evening in Cork where some of our Sanctuary Runners there came together to run, walk, chat, laugh and pose for this lovely picture! #Solidarity on Leeside 💙

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Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social · Jun 30

I was reading the details thinking the very same....

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔵This picture from last weekend's Sanctuary Runners' group in Tallaght is just wonderful!

Life is stressful for many (especially for those far from home) but Sanctuary Runners get-togethers offers positive and vital escapism #Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 20

🔵Pls take 10 minutes out of your day to watch this amazing inspirational short-film

Commissioned by London Marathon Events - made by #StoriesOfNote

It tells the story of the Brighton Sanctuary Runners team and their bid to take part in the Brighton marathon 2025

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Solidarity in Motion: Sanctuary Runners

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 15

🔵 Along the route at this year's Cork City Marathon our team received love, support and motivation everywhere. Thank you Cork - #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect ALWAYS

Join us - 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 - 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

Email [email protected] for more

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 15

🔵 PLEASE run/jog/walk with the Sanctuary Runners in the Cork BHAA 🍏 5km race on Tuesday evening, June 17th.

We will have our blue Sanctuary Runners tops available for those who would like to run with us on the evening. 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐕𝐄 and thanks to 🍏 employees for the #Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 12

🔵 Féidhlim McGowan finished 5th in the Cork City Marathon in his Sanctuary Runner singlet (2 hrs 29 mins!).

At the post race party Bianca's eyes lit up as she spotted the medal and without a moments hesitation Féidhlim presented it to her.

A class act from a class man. Thank you Féidhlim🔵

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 14

🔵 On Saturday mornings across Ireland our groups come together to run, jog & walk as one - Pictures here from this morning in Limerick, Tralee, Castlebar and Buncrana - Please join us, its free, its casual but its so important to show #Solidarity #Friendship and #Respect with everyone in our society

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Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social · Jun 14

Pls don't take your eyes off what is happening to the people of Gaza today, the purposeful genocide & starvation of an entire population

They want you to look elsewhere, they want you to be overwhelmed

The blood lust is depraved-And those who supply the cover as bad as those who pull the trigger

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · Jun 14

No rest for the wicked: despite having just launched an all-out war on #Iran, Israel continues to simultaneously slaughter civilians in #Gaza.

The only language they understand is violence.

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Israeli fire kills 23 people in Gaza, many at aid site

Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 23 people across Gaza, most of them near an aid distribution site operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said.

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 11

🩵 We adore this picture of Mobina and Isha taken on Princes' Street after the Cork City Marathon!

Two wonderful warm, fun and strong women

#Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

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